'complexions of the atmosphere' , Athens in the economic crisis.

'complexions of the atmosphere' is a series of painted sculptural reliefs made from recycled polystyrene which show everyday stuff and modern calamity juxtaposed as oxymora of a pseudo classical aesthetic, the grim and the barren beautified. Seemingly arbitrary views, in unheroic contrast to ancient reliefs of the Parthenon are woven together by a mesh of subconscious thought; an empty underground office the antithesis of business acumen, a street-barbecue who’s ominous sentiment suggests that life is definitely no-picnic, a dank drainage ditch on the cusp of a wealthy suburb once a fine river known by ancient poets for the washing of the feet now concreted over, a lonely fire-fighter hurls a small bucket of water at the fire gorging the forest to become prime real-estate, people both young and old, in a scene reminiscent of the middle-ages huddle around after-market garbage bins in the hope of finding the day’s meal. Titles using phrases abounding with assurance from new language developments in the world of banking and finance jar uncomfortably with the images, a cutting-edge nomenclature which, as it trickles down, is becoming part of our everyday speech. In the commonplace and the banal we find our fading view of what we have lost in the moral mayhem of today.